Category «Internet»

Modernizing Congress U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer Applies Technology to Democracy

LegisPro: “Hudson Hollister  – We recently interviewed Rep. Derek Kilmer, Chair of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. This transcript has been edited for clarity.” Hudson Hollister – Representative Kilmer, Chairman of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, thank you so much for joining us. Hudson Hollister …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

The Kid Surveillance Complex Locks Parents in a Trap

Wired: “…From smartphones to schools to entertainment, parents can track the near totality of their children’s lives with ease. Share Location features come out of the box with any smartphone, and extremely popular apps like Life360 or Bark offer “enhanced” features such as driving monitoring and camera roll scanning for a small price. Unsurprisingly, the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Education, Internet, Privacy

Librarian’s lament: Digital books are not fireproof

ZDNet – Chris Freeland is a librarian and Director of the Internet Archive’s Open Libraries program: “The disturbing trend of school boards and lawmakers banning books from libraries and public schools is accelerating across the country. In response, Jason Perlow made a strong case last week for what he calls a “Freedom Archive,” a digital repository of …

Subjects: Censorship, Digital Rights, Education, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Holocaust Survivor Lists Digitized for the First Time

UMass Amherst: “Hundreds of pages with the names of Holocaust survivors relocated to Displaced Persons Camps in Austria and Germany have now been reprinted and digitized. The extensive lists have never been available together, and the original volumes exist in only a few libraries worldwide. Thanks to a collaboration of the Robert S. Cox Special …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app — and it’s unclear where it goes, study says

CNBC: “Two of your social media apps could be collecting a lot of data on you — and you might not like what one of them is doing with it. That’s according to a recent study, published last month by mobile marketing company URL Genius, which found that YouTube and TikTok track users’ personal data …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

Americans’ Attitudes and Experiences with COVID-19 Vaccines: What We’ve Learned from the Vaccine Monitor

KFF on YouTube: “Since before the first COVID-19 vaccine became available more than a year ago, the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor Project has tracked the public’s evolving views about and experiences with the vaccines amid the ongoing pandemic. On Feb. 8, 2022 KFF held a web briefing to share insights gleaned from nearly 40 Vaccine …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine

AI Influence on Audiobooks Grows—As Does Controversy

Publishers Weekly: “The advent of AI-enabled audiobook narration has been a hot topic of discussion in audiobook circles of late, and according to a number of audiobook narrators and other industry professionals, an October PW article raised the temperature of debate further. In that piece, consultant and PW columnist Thad McIlroy discussed the state of …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Public Blockchains Are the New National Economies of the Metaverse

Wired: “When we speak of an economy, we usually refer to a country or a region where interrelated activities of production, consumption, and trade happen. When we speak of blockchains, we speak of decentralized computer networks. On the surface, these two seem unrelated. But with on-chain activities growing at warp speed, the ecosystems of layer …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

A Place of One’s Own: How Law Libraries Support Democracy by Protecting Citizens’ Right to Read

A Place of One’s Own: How Law Libraries Support Democracy by Protecting Citizens’ Right to Read. Amy A. Emerson. LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 113:4 [2021-14 – This is a PDF edition – please scroll down the document to locate this article.] “By offering places for private reading and contemplation, law libraries foster well-informed citizens capable …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy

How to take control of your Google Workspace search history

TechRepublic: “Starting March 29, 2022, people with Google Workspace accounts gain the ability to choose settings for Workspace search history. This setting controls whether the system stores and suggests prior searches when you enter text in a search box in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Currents. By default, Workspace search history will be on…”

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines